Both of these conceptions of the self isolate the individual from personal and social relationships and from biological and social forces.
There are serious consequences to the ideological bubbles we've created while we self-isolate ourselves in Facebook profiles and Twitter accounts, interacting only with those we agree with.
Similarly, those who self-isolated out of fear only, denoted RF (removed through Fear) return to the S pool at rate HRF, where a constant H would yield exponential decay of individual fear, ceteris paribus.
Some participants displayed anticipated stigma: they self-isolated and hesitated to accept available HIV-related services in order to avoid HIV disclosure and its potential stigma.
Some encourage followers to self isolate and only communicate with other group members online, all while sending money to the leader.
Darkness is his friend, because in darkness the self is isolated.
In the end, or by this Wednesday, the Republican Party may very well have become an out-and-out cult: self-fulfillingly isolated in its delusions; self-defeatingly exclusive in its narrow insistence on ideological purity; increasingly cut off from the most generous conceptions of reality; and swellingly fervid in its members' imagined threats and grandiose in their fantasy accomplishments.
"We're creating a new feudal system in Silicon Valley, where the 1% is isolated, self-isolated".
I would like to replace this recurrently hamstrung, self-defeating and mostly isolated self with the more promising image: the person in communion with other persons.
"We are all wounded survivors, alive but devastated selves, fragmented, isolated -- the condition of modern man," he recently told Timothy A. Burgard, a curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, who is organizing a De Staebler retrospective.
